Mausoleums of Termez, Uzbekistan
Kokildor-Ota Mausoleum - Termez, Uzbekistan
 Kokildor-Ota Mausoleum |
The Kokildor-Ota is very uncommon building. It mentioned by researchers for its architecture and unusual planning, as a khanaka mausoleum of the XVI c. worthy to note. And it’s necessary to visit this place when you travel to Uzbekistan. Visitors traveling around Uzbekistan consider Kokildor-Ota a true epitome of ancient Oriental mystery, because there is very interesting story about this place. The legend says that the name of the saint buried witnesses about his participation in the rite of cutting the tuft of hair of some believers who gave a vow to the tuft of hair till the time when some definite events took place in their life.
Kokildor-Ota is portal-domed construction, with many chambers and brick wall on the front. Making Uzbekistan tour you’ll see, that the idea of building a three-stage frontal, open facade, which was used in the complex of Sultan- Saodat, was repeated here too. Its plan was symmetrical by composition: There was a deep terrace with a main entrance and large hall with a dome in the center. On their sides, almost parallel, were placed two rooms across the corridor in a mirror composition. So, the rectangular entrance led to a central hall and lateral entrances to the joined rooms and corridors that were laterally to them. There are amazing patterns made of ganch.
During Uzbekistan tour you’ll probably notice that the portal of this building was more characteristic for the Temurid epoch (XV c.) than to the architecture of Mawarannahr in the XVI c. Archeologists have suggested that it could have been redecorated in the epoch of Temurids. In There are gravestones in the interior of the hall; the largest one belonged to Kokildor- Ota. Probably the reconstruction of the monumental structures was done at the same time with the complex of Hakim at- Termizi and Sultan Saodat. It’s necessary to note for every tourist, who visits Uzbekistan, that Kokildor- Ota is significant monument in Termez and more than that it is one of the few khanaka with a frontal composition in Central Asia! And every man who travels to Uzbekistan would admit that the architecture of Surkhandarya, especially Termez, takes the special place in the medieval architecture of the entire Central Asia.
